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Western Digital My Passport Elite 250GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive (Titanium) | List Price: $147.99
Discount Price: $96.69
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Brand: Western Digital
Binding: Personal Computers
Warranty: 5 years warranty
Features: - Box Content - My Passport Portable hard drive, USB 2.0 cable, Drawstring carrying bag, and Quick Install Guide
- Synchronized and secure - WD Sync synchronization and encryption software lets you take your critical data with you
- Remote access - Connect My Passport to any PC and run MioNet Key software to remotely access files, music, and photos from any of your computers with MioNet software installed
- Capacity Gauge - See at a glance how much space is available on your drive
- Search your drive, manage your photos, and simplify Web searches with included Google software
Great little drive [Posted on 2008-08-12]
I bought this drive to replace a WD MyBook 500GB external drive that failed within 19 months of the purchase date (it came supplied with a 1 year warranty). By the way, I'm not the only one to report the failure of the MyBook drives slightly after the warranty period's expiry--if you check out reviews of the product, chances are you'll find quite a few people who have experienced the same issue within a 14-19 month period.
This time I wanted a drive with a long warranty. This drive provides a 5 year warranty--which is great. I am happy with WD drives, I just don't like being left in the dust without a warranty. This particular drive features a great form-factor--it fits in my pocket along with my iPhone without any problems. It looks great, I like the silver color. The drive is being used with OSX so the capacity LED gauge serves little purpose for me (only supports Windows XP/Vista). Not requiring a power cable was a great design decision by WD. This drive serves as a TimeMachine backup drive, which for my two 80 GB drives, works well in respect to capacity. In terms of performance, I measured the time it took to transfer (backup) 1GB of assorted data and calculated that on average, the data moved at ~8MB/sec, which is worse than my old 7200RPM MyBook, but not bad. Since TimeMachine runs on a backup stealth schedule without any intervention on my behalf, I don't care how fast the data moves as long as it works.
Overall, highly recommended. Hope it lasts longer than my 500GB MyBook. If not, 5 year protection.
Excellent [Posted on 2008-09-01]
I am very happy. I bought it to use it as backup and it's pretty fast.
Great Buy! [Posted on 2008-09-05]
This was a great buy! It held everything I needed it too and it was so easy to use!
Love it! [Posted on 2008-09-22]
This is my second WD hard drive. I also have a 500 GB MyBook and I love them both. I haven't had any issue's at all with either hard drive, file transfer is great and it does the job. I'm going to start using it with my MAC also so I hope all stays the same as far as performance.
Decent little, but review your options first [Posted on 2008-10-12]
Western digital sells the Passport Essential, Elite, and Studio. The essential has a 3 year warranty. The elite has a 5 year warranty. The Studio gives you firewire and USB connectivity.
In the real world, firewire for external hard drives is always faster. Ignore the 480 mb/s spec for USB 2.0.
Thing is, these drives are all priced fairly closely with each other. Why would you choose a lesser drive for the same price? Be very careful when you do the Amazon search, I thought I was looking for the 320GB elite and accidentally bought the 250GB. The restocking fee was so high, I just kept it.
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